What Does Ezekiel 12:13 Mean in the King James?
My net also will I spread upon him, and he shall be taken in my snare: and I will bring him to Babylon to the land of the Chaldeans; yet shall he not see it, though he shall die there.
The analysis reads the King James wording.
King James Version The King James Version, first published in 1611. Selah Verse shows the standard text.
THE KEY
The hunt carries him to the land where he dies, yet the destination remains closed to his sight.
THE MEANING
The verse holds capture and blindness together: he is carried to Babylon, yet cannot see the land where he dies. The snare reaches beyond movement, closing even around the moment of arrival.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
It undoes the assumption that being brought to a destination means you will behold it: the journey ends there, while sight does not.
THE ROOT
מְצוּדָתִי
metsudati
GROWS FROM
צוד
To hunt, pursue, or catch.
“snare” in this verse is metsudati. The word means “my hunting trap,” from the root for hunting and catching. The image makes him the prey: the net closes over him, and the hunt ends only when he is caught.
ALSO GROWS
tsayid: Hunting; game or hunted prey.
צַיִד
This branch names both the hunt and its quarry, revealing the snare as part of a hunt rather than a mere obstacle.
metsod: Hunting gear or a net; also a stronghold.
מְצוֹד
The same root can name the device that catches and a place that holds, echoing how the capture carries him to a place he cannot leave.
וּפָרַשְׂתִּי
u-farasti
GROWS FROM
פרשׂ
To spread out or stretch forth.
The verb describes the net being extended over him; it means spreading, while the root of “snare” supplies the purpose of that spread. Together they turn open space into enclosure.
ALSO GROWS
yifros: He spreads out, as wings are spread.
יִפְרֹשׂ
The same motion can extend wings; here it extends a net, showing that what matters is what is spread over him.
vayifros: He spread out, as hands are stretched forth.
וַיִּפְרֹשׂ
The root describes extension itself; in this verse, that extension becomes the opening move of a hunt.
THE PATTERN
A snare can turn the path forward into the very place where capture closes around someone.
The proud have hid a snare for me, and cords; they have spread a net by the wayside; they have set gins for me. Selah.For man also knoweth not his time: as the fishes that are taken in an evil net, and as the birds that are caught in the snare; so are the sons of men snared in an evil time, when it falleth suddenly upon them.For as a snare shall it come on all them that dwell on the face of the whole earth.THE THREAD
And they slew the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes, and put out the eyes of Zedekiah, and bound him with fetters of brass, and carried him to Babylon.This verse makes “he shall not see it” concrete: his eyes are put out before he is carried to Babylon. The capture closes around his sight as well as his movement.
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